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Gmail's Storage Capacity Stops Increasing

googlesystem.blogspot.com — If you sign out of Gmail, you'll notice that the storage doesn't increase. It used to increase with about 0.33 MB.

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  • Brahma, on 10/12/2007, -9/+86Hmm...First the address book hack and now this. Google seriously needs some New Year luck..
    • GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -65/+17Except, the address book hack was is now fixed.

      And who the hell needs 2800 megabytes of storage in their email? What are you going to do, attach all eleven Die Hard movies, type up the Bible (King James) and send it to yourself eight and a half times?

      Jesus on a pogo stick. 2.8G is a lot of f*@&ing space.

      ---

      From the article : "It used to increase with about 0.33 MB a day, but the Gmail team forgot to add the code that manages the quota increase after 31st December 2006."

      Is that true?

    • arewhyfour, on 10/12/2007, -80/+9I disagree, I can fill a 1TB system in a matter of a couple of weeks. 2.5GB is nothing.
    • damentz, on 10/12/2007, -13/+103Inaccurate, Jesus was not on a pogo stick.
    • Phil246, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14@arewhyfour , i can fill it in a couple of minutes/hours Not useful data mind but still :)
      dd -if=/dev/urandom -of=/home/file
    • spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -3/+120Did anyone actually RTFA?

      "The Gmail team forgot to add the code that manages the quota increase after 31st December 2006."
    • arewhyfour, on 10/12/2007, -26/+3Im talking about all my legal backups of Movies, Applications, and Games....
    • nthitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27@arewhyfour

      Yes, backups do take up a lot of space. Mine are certainly bigger then 2.8 GB. However, I am not emailing these around, let alone using my email as a storage place for them and it would be somewhat foolish for anyone to do so. 2.8 GB should suffice for anyone.
    • GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26@arewhyfour--

      "Im talking about all my legal backups of Movies, Applications, and Games...."

      You do that with a Gmail account?
    • flag564, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6Sweet Jebus, how much free space do you need? If anything they need to take the numbers down a notch. People aren't exactly sending God as an attachment these days.
    • myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4I keep everything in 10MB blocks and email them to myself to back them up!
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1The point is that Google never intended people to be using their FREE service as a back up service.

      It is probably the fact that too many people were filling it up with unintended uses that force them to stop increasing in the first place.
    • GoatBnn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Well, it started at one gig and grew to 2.7...and I am using well over 1 gig. I cant complain!
    • JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I have about 600e-mails in my hotmail account and it is still showing 1% usage...
    • kmckanna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22You guys need to chill out, GMAIL is still by far the best free mail service. Everyone cries and whines about this and that, yet they aren't paying a damned nickel for any of it. You get what you pay for. Okay? Greeeaaattt..

      If Gmail charged any bit for an account, half of the people would bail out on it... at least that'd clean up some of the babies who cry about a free service.
    • olegk, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6It's not a free service, it's ad-supported.
    • kmckanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll tell you what Olegk, when you finally are forced to make a credit card/pay pal transaction to log into your Gmail account, you can then talk to me. The ads first off, are small as hell. If you have trouble ignoring things in life, good luck in the future because truth is, you aren't going to like everything you see.
  • joeweather9, on 10/12/2007, -33/+1its not even their anymore
  • darkzealot89, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Oh what the hell...
    but....

    "Oh, and you still have over 2800 megabytes (and counting) of free storage."

    I will keep a little faith in Google for now.
  • crazaalex, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2I bet its still growing, just that Google doesn't have enough space on that page for .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000066 MB growth.
  • wbienek, on 10/12/2007, -21/+0The bigger they are the harder they fall.. Googl resutls have been gettin worse for years.. its because of their fight against SEO companies.. SEO companies make sites with keywords that most match what their client wants to come up for (what their client sells) .. When google makes it so that the most optimized, promoted site for a given phrase doesn't do as well because its 'TOO' optimized, Google results suffer...
  • TooEarly, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2well, honestly. did they really need to keep a count for all the space you were getting? MSN mail is trying copy off of them with hotmail 'live' or whatever. and yahoo is as well. so they set a trend. oh and also, it still says gmail is in a BETA stage.. i don't know if it'll ever not be, but we'll see.
  • akira117, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47I'm at 4% so this is not really important to me.... :7P
  • livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+46I'll start to give a ***** when my mail storage reaches anywhere near 1 a GB
    • superpotential, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0"give a *****"? you mean take a *****.

      going to the toilet is giving a *****. you are physically giving a piece of ***** to the toilet.

      complaining about something is taking a *****. you are taking all this ***** into you and you need to complain.
  • jimmypetro, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30How long before people start hating Google just because they're "Google"?... like Microsoft... or Sony...
    • r2700, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72I think they're immune - we all -discovered- Google; did they ever advertise their search engine? They've given us Google Earth, Maps, Gmail, AdSense/AdWords. They fixed a security glitch overnight on New Years Eve - I can't believe they're catching flack for advertising a 1 line tip on their engine - it's -their engine- =) Sony's constantly screwing up, Microsoft is constantly being malicious, sneaky or devious. Google gets it. I trust them.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -28/+3r2700...your comment is the dumbest comment ever.

      How is Microsoft "constantly being malicious" Seriously...how?

      And oh my god! A company fixing a security probelm on New Years Eve! Will wonders never cease! Only Google would ever do that!

      And Google gave us Google Earth? Well...they BOUGHT Keyhole, I guess. (By the way, like EVERYTHING but their search engine and adsense, Google EArth has not turned one penny of profit for Google becuase very few people give a ***** about it.)

      As for advertising their search engine...well, they did saturate the toolbar market with add ons to get the newbies to add it whenever they wanted to isntall some other lame product...which is the ONLY reason their market share went up so fast. (If you seriously think that their market share increase by people typing www.google.com into theur URL you are REALLY sad in your fanboyism.)
    • badlandz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11For one thing, I don't pay Google anything... To get Microsoft and Sony products, I have to break open the wallet...
    • carl0ski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Broomet

      Have you ever heard the trash that comes out of Vole and Balmers mouth?

      Bill Gates is mother terasa
      Steve Balmer is Saddam Hussein in comparison
    • superpotential, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Promoting your products with ads and toolbars and including your products with other products that you are affiliated with is OK. Both Google and Microsoft and any other company does that.

      But playing sneaky tricks to try to forcefully gain your users' loyalty or attempts to destroy competition (like Microsoft's deliberate invention of non-Sun-compliant J++ standards requiring users to use only the Microsooft VM on Windows, Microsoft's earlier agreements with sellers to preload IE but make them sign contracts against installing Netscape, Microsoft's invention of IE-specific standards and non-CSS compliance so that websites can proudly bear a "IE required" logo, invention of the stupid "html" that Word outputs that was initially only viewable in Internet Explorer, etc.) are not OK. Google does none of this.
  • gamemaster357, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13i thought it was going to hit 3gbs
  • Phil246, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13the function for displaying the quota update is still in the source, Chances are its just a display problem - the storage behind the scenes is likely to be increasing as it always did ( you didnt think it was realtime updates did you? )
  • traherom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Maybe Google just updated the page was it wouldn't have a "scary" decimal sitting there. Just because the page doesn't display the "real" amount doesn't mean it isn't increasing...
  • TooEarly, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0jimmypetro: once google starts to suck (which they havn't) people will say they suck, just because people are hippocrits
  • Tyrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28If you look at the page source, you will see the data for that JavaScript counter:
    var CP = [
    [ 1136102400000, 2680 ],
    [ 1149145200000, 2730 ],
    [ 1167638400000, 2800 ]
    ];

    It looks like perhaps they possibly forgot to add in another data point for the future, or they really intended it to stop at 2800... hard to say.
    • carl0ski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and that is only the page javascript for the frontend

      the backend database may well still be counting upwards
    • zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Somehow i doubt they even have a true limit on the backend. I mean, why would they? Other than folks that are obviously abusing the system I see no reason to really limit it at all. I suspect the limit is really just a marketing gimmick...
  • cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Why is this even a big deal? I've had my Gmail account for 2 years, I've managed to use 18 percent of a 2.8 gig total.


  • adsoftheworld, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Just do some clean up on your gmail account to free up some space:
    http://creativebits.org/off_topic/clean_up_your_gmail_account
    • bmwboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why the hell would you need to clean up a gmail account? Jeez...it's near impossible to fill even half of it up!
  • razrielle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ive never had a problem with storage, had my mail account for at least a year and a half, havent even used a fourth of it and i never delete emails
  • Daniel8802, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Come on now, we have 2GB+ of storage counting - FOR FREE!!! Does it really matter if you lose .33MB of space? Come on now!
  • iQuin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4do you think that they are gearing up for 1.0? gmail has been in beta this whole time so mabye this is just them revving up for the big rush.
    • Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If they were 'revving up', they would presumably skip to 3GB for the good press, not stop increasing...
    • Cerpin_Taxt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wait for April 1st (Google's favourite release date)
  • rabidphage, on 10/12/2007, -30/+0***** kill google!!!!
    Its time they did something differant.
    they are too cocky anyways.
    • musras, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3you're quite the ***** yourself, buddy
    • negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9man with hands in pockets feels cocky all day
  • nickarodriguez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1they just "forgot" to put the code in?
  • bonus45, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Off topic but, I saw this story in digg swarm. What the hell is going on in there ? A new user created today with 23,000 dug stories already ? wtf.
  • jakobm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Considering the fact that googles staff most likely read digg, I would not be surprised if they used this bit of "bad news" to their advantage. Wait for it, their are going to up us all to 5gb just to get the hype it will cause.. :)
  • BransonLAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think they just decided to not show it counting up. More of a novelty effect than a gauge that would show on the page forever and ever, not something that would stay there.
  • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's probably just a momentary glitch or something. I'm not too worried as I haven't even used my first GB yet.
  • cracell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My gmail is at 951mb, so I'd be at the original 1gb by next year.

    But like for work I use Gmail for Domains, and we have all of the logs and outgoing mails forwarded to our accounts. That way we can easily lookup client actions without putting strain on our own system (Google has awesome search) That inbox is almost at the 2800mb.

    Of course, I need to delete the old mails but more is always better.
  • MattKamineko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not exactly Infinity + 1 though, eh?
    • myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Little do you know, this just means that infinity is equal to 2799.
  • StuGazzO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just curious...how much would you pay Google for say 100GB of online storage (email, files, whatever).

    I'd be willing to pay 20-30 bucks a year for a service that's fast, reliable and secure that integrates with my email.
  • AbsoluteMSTR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7506/607/1600/848537/gmail-infinity.gif
  • takeda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's Google's y2k7 problem =)
  • LKBM, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3'It used to increase with about 0.33 MB.'
    Per second? Per hour? Per trillion years? Maybe it's still increasing by about 0.33 MB per trillion years. We'll have to wait and see. ;-)
  • drakia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This has actually happened before, Google only adds the code to show how much space there will be a year in advance so that users can't view the source and get a sneak preview of what their space is going to max out at, I give it a few days or so before they update the code and it starts counting again.
  • dodd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But this is only about what is shown on login page. Real storage capacity may be still increasing. If you look at Script on login page, you will see it has nothing to do with real capacity.
  • bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Marked as inaccurate.


    "Did anyone actually RTFA?

    "The Gmail team forgot to add the code that manages the quota increase after 31st December 2006.""

    But then again, the digg community will digg any FUD article, god forbid that we stop and think about it

  • battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2JESUS CHIRST ON A POPSICKLE SITCK - READ THE ***** ARTICLE - if you can call it that.
  • juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1okey dokey this was inevitable memory cost money and no matter how big your company the cost increases substantially especially if the returns or profit matches the cost but that is a whole different story, maybe they took an average amount of memory from everyone using gmail and will decide one day to just max at the average... remember there are unlimited wants and limited resources
  • battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 2800 MB.

    Well, so much for the "forgotten" coding.
  • DarkSunlight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2maybe an earthquake or something crashed the huge hard disk?
    http://wardonline.sohosted.com/funny/GoogleHarddisk.jpg
  • hayalci, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It is funny that the article assumes you are always logged into gmail.

    "If you sign out of Gmail, you'll notice that the storage doesn't increase."
    • YuriKnall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it could be that it assumes you use the "remember me" feature
    • ithejosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm always logged into gmail.
    • hayalci, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't *use* gmail, how about that ;)
  • wildmXranat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does it need to while being at 2.8 Gig. I think I am fine. If i complain about it ever, somebody slap me !
  • coditza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01 server, with 80Gigs or more webspace costs around 1k/year
    1 250G hdd, costs less than $100

    You people are just complaining because you don't get more free stuff. At least, do you click the adds from gmail so google can get back some of the money invested in all this thing? I really doubt.
  • mrbrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe they're working on a global 1 gb increase like we got a couple years ago.

    Lets be optimistic.
  • chazsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First the Google Calculator is down and now this? I smell conspiracy. ***** Ask.com, must be out for revenge.
  • emanueljones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think Google has some serious new year's gremlins. The increasing storage space on Gmail is one of the reasons I like it. I'm sad to see it go.
  • malavalla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i have 175 gmail accounts and as a spammed this is very disturbing time is money so when gmail added all the storage i decided to go with them. they need to realize all the time and effort it takes to switch accounts cost me money. google will be getting a letter from me.
  • danielg404, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hi,

    Could someone send me an invite for gmail? I live in Canada, and for some reason I gmail doesn't send SMS messages in Canada for the registration process.
    My email is danielgagnon888@sympatico.ca

    Thanks
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